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100 years ago, the 50-year-old Violet Gibson made an attack on Benito Mussolini, but the bullet only grazed the dictator's nose. Her motive remains in the dark until today.
It was a routine appointment for Italy's Prime Minister – but then on 7 April 1926 it hit in the middle of Rome. The Irishwoman Violet Gibson had shot at the "Duce". The fascist leader was only slightly injured. Does the assassin deserve praise as an anti-fascist?
The turbulent life and lonely death of Dubliner Violet Gibson who tried to assassinate Italian dictator Mussolini
One hundred years ago, on April 7, 1926, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was walking through adoring crowds in the Piazza del Campidoglio in central Rome when a dainty woman in a black veil attempted to change the course of history by shooting him.
100 years on... the remarkable story of the Irish woman who plotted to kill Mussolini
Italy's fascist leader survived many assassination attempts, but on April 7, 1926, Violet Gibson became the only one to draw blood. Robert Hume remembers the Dubliner that history has largely forgotten
Violet Gibson, an Irish woman, tried to kill Benito Mussolini in 1926, shooting at him in Rome. At the last moment, however, the Italian dictator will have turned his head, and the bullet only reached his head... in the nose.
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